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Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

by VladimirJankovic (Author)

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    Hardcover 2010

    $124.61
Synopsis

This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable 'in' and the threatening 'out' by examining the pathologies associated with weather, domestic space, ventilation, clothing, and travel in Britain at the turn of the 19th century.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 17 Nov 2010
ISBN 10: 0230104754
ISBN 13: 9780230104754

Media Reviews

'...fascinating book...overall this is an original and informative addition to the historical literature on health and environment.' - Stephen Mosley, Leeds Metropolitan University, Social History of Medicine

'Thought-provoking By showing the extensive links between ideas of bodies, comfort, risk, and moral behavior, Jankovic has ensured a more complicated discussion of modern environmental thought.' - The History of Science Society

Author Bio
VLADIMIR JANKOVIC Wellcome Research Lecturer in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK.